George Eliot Quotes - Page 40

• Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Taste, Infinite

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• A woman mixed of such fine elements
  That were all virtue and religion dead
  She'd make them newly, being what she was.

  George Eliot

  Women, Elements, Virtue

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Giving, Justice

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.240, ShandonPress

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Inspiration, Growing

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

  George Eliot

  Men, Weakness, Sacred

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.282

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Breakfast, Men And Women

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

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• It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

  George Eliot

  Doctors, Constitution, Trifles

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.98

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• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Regret, Grief, Affection

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

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• I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

  George Eliot

  Names, Wish, Eliot

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• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  George Eliot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

  George Eliot

  Ease, Scene, Born

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.178, George Eliot

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• There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

  George Eliot

  Done, May, Better Yourself

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.291

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• There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

  George Eliot

  Baptism, Conscious, Consecration

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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• Brothers are so unpleasant.

  George Eliot

  Brother

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.108

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Desire, Paradise

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.720, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

  George Eliot

  Running, Garden, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

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• If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

  George Eliot

  Character, Needs, Theory

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• It is never too late to be who you want to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

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